I bought a 1TB drive the other day, and found this site on how to modify it :) My main reason for wanted to upgrade the fw was that the backup (using the shipped EMC software) was hellishly slow; I'd wanted to use the drive as a secondary backup, but it took well over a day backing up my 300GB RAID array before I gave up. I read a few posts in this forum which suggests that the transfer rate might be increased by upgrading the fw so I thought I'd give it a go.

Before upgrading to 2.00.18, I used Martin's script to enable SSH (I did this about 30 mins ago). I logged in via SSH and everything was good. Before I really got going, though, I updated the firmware (before I made and real changes and had to do them all again).

Now? I can't re-enable SSH. I'm getting the error "Failed to download firmware - try again later". I know that the script works fine, as I used it less than an hour ago. Maybe something in the latest firmware has locked the drive against using that script? (?)

Anyone got any ideas on how I can enable SSH? I tried connecting via SSH, but I the host is not contactable. I tried telnet too, but no joy.

Sorted! I never figured out why my drive didn't like Martin's SSH script. I couldn't get the telnet script working either - until I stopped using putty and just used Windows command prompt instead. No idea why it should make any difference - but when I tried to putty into the device I kept getting "connection refused". Instead when I just used the Windows telnet command it worked fine. Heh.

Anyway - for any other n00bs having the same problem as me, follow the instructions HERE and then use a telnet client to connect to the IP of your device (but if connecting from Windows, try using the telnet command from a Windows command prompt rather than putty).

Final (final) note… I stopped the Mionet script from being called on startup, and after reboot I can now use SSH again. Did the firmware update change something in Mionet too?? Maybe something else (Mionet?) was running on port 22? I maybe should have checked what was running on the ports before I disabled Mionet - I could always re-enable it and then check what ports are being used but I probably won't…

I just bought the 1TB version myself the other day and set up ssh earlier today.
I could at first not log in (using command line in Ubuntu) but found that the username had to be all uppercase (even though I had entered it in all lowercase).
Just curious if you can log in using putty and an all uppercase username.